Dunkirk Review

Sure Christopher Nolan is one of our best. Sure he has made some thrilling stuff in the past. The Batman triology is a personal favourite.

Dunkirk is a colossal dud. It does start with a tense atmosphere and the visuals are brilliant. It does bring out the dark side of war and how it can make even the bravest of a soldier petty and selfish.In fact the first fifteen odd minutes make you think you are on to a taut thriller from Nolan then the horrifying going nowhere plot unfolds.

We have however seen all this before in far better movies. Sorry dear Nolan but if we have already been treated to stuff like Saving Private Ryan and Enemy at the Gates we expected a better war film from you.

Visuals do not make a movie and the director gets too obsessed with the brooding and gloomy narrative. In the end even a 106 minute movie ends up looking like a drag.

Stay away this one has disappointment written all over it with a capital D.

Dunkirk Review

Christopher Nolan, the legend that came up with inception and interstellar in the past gave us this incredible one this time. the soldiers struggli...read more

Christopher Nolan, the legend that came up with inception and interstellar in the past gave us this incredible one this time. the soldiers struggling to reach their homes , the patriotism in the movie, and the depiction of the war scene through three mediums- land, air and water is marvellous. props to the incredible cinematography and imax!the plethora of actors from newcomers like the one direction heart throb Harry Styles- what an incredible lad!, Fionn whitehead, Tom Glynn Carney, Barry keoghan, aneurin bernard to the extremely established ones like Tom hardy, jack lowden, mark rylance, cillian murphy among others completely stole the show.this two hour action thriller never lets you have a dull moment throughtout. a nail biting, gut-wrenching, heart breaking at places but an extremely beautiful drama.it's a must watch hands down! oh and don't forget to watch it in imax 70mm, if possible!

Impeccable Rescue

When we enter in movie hall and has this thought in our very head of watching Christopher Nolan's movie, there this goosebumps we have. But when th...read more

When we enter in movie hall and has this thought in our very head of watching Christopher Nolan's movie, there this goosebumps we have. But when this movie starts we fall in love with every single flawless scenes.So anyway this is the review I got------Movie starts with a war in Dunkirk with allied and axis powers. Every single character has its perfect role but the lead character was sounding mute sometimes. Every single Brit was ready to rescue 30000 men from the shore and there it was a ferry moved to rescue their gallant soldiers who were fighting for their lives.Tom Hardy has its pivotal role or we can say he made his role watchable. One Direction's singer Harry Styles should be grateful of Christopher Nolan that he got the chance to be in this epic. Patriotism and Chauvinism would have played a great role if this were an Indian film.Every single scene was toothbitter and everyone was like "whoa", and literally I didn't blink my eyes of movie. The scenes where the pilot' plane got sunk and the ship's sunken scenes were undeniably awesome. Tom Hardy's plane fights and the last scene where his got emptied were marvelous.The only thing that was not there of movie in 2d but not in 3d, but still I got the chance to Dunkirk's Premier and this chance was given by Desimartini and I would like to thank the Desimartini team which provided me this unforgettable experience.

Set in World War II era, the story essentially is based upon Mission Dynamos to rescue British and allied troops that are stranded on French beach named Dunkirk surrounded by German forces. The story revolves around failed evacuation attempts, a civilian team riding on their boat and an air force team carried by Ferrier(Tom Hardy).

Christopher Nolan attempts war genre for the first time and did a neat job as a director framing all three war fronts, land, air and sea through his signature IMAX cinematography and hard hitting background score. But, failed miserably in aligning story and script this time. Fionn Whitehead fails to bring expressions on his face and looked lost just like his character. Even, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy were not given meaty roles to perform their art.

With no acts of bravery, no war fronts, no strategic meetings the movie just emphasized on hideouts and rescue that fails to keep interest level. The movie is filled with many unjustified scenes as such civilian boats carrying soldiers returning unharmed, Tom Hardy's plane never got attacked and he did all the heroics with subtle fuel and minimal help.

'Saving Private Ryan' is still and byfar the best movie in war-cum-rescue genre and Dunkirk's pre release hype of comparison is inconsequential. Still this is a welcome return for one of the finest filmmaker of our times after debacle of 'Interstellar' but still needs to dig dip to recreate magic of 'The Dark Knight' and 'Inception'.

Nevertheless, Dunkirk provides ample grand visuals enjoyed best on IMAX and may prove to be a one time watch.